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it is to bo hopod that somo ono will tako up tho subjoct ; for if the Royal Arch can bo proved to havo boon invented so lately even as 200 years ago , it must bo considered as a modern dogreo . ... If it bo really anciout , tho records of ono or more of its many lodgos or chapters may establish its long existence in England as oasily as in tho case of St- John ' s Masoniy . But , whatever bo tho result , lot tho investigation bo conducted with accuracyand a desire to cloar up tho truth . '
, . " My explanations woro considered of sufficient importanco to merit publication ; and I was earnestly requested to consolidate the subject-matter of tho correspondence , and to submit the result to tho judgmont of tho fraternity at large . Tho verdict has provod favourable , and a socond edition has boon called for in England , aftor tho work had already passed through three editions in tho United States , and has been quoted and requotod in all tho publications on tho subjoct in that quarter of the globo . "
A vory thorough vontilation of this subjoct in tho pagos of tho FREESIASONS' MAGAZINE has takon place , as during several years it occupied a fair sharo of attention amongst tho reading mombors of our Order , and tho studious and capable , of thoso desirous of acquiring famo as contributors to tho gonei-al stock of knowlodgo on Masonic subjocts found free scopo in thoso pages , Tho author proceods to add . •—" In order to rondor tbo prosont edition moro worthy of general
approval , of which its roeoption amongst tho fraternity will bo tho most conclusivo test , I havo not only arranged its contents in a moro regular and scientific form , by which a roforenco to tho several particulars may bo oasily accossiblo , but havo added fivo now aud interesting chapters on tho ritual and ceremonies of tho
Third Degree , as thoy woro usod by tho secoding Masons in 1710 , and which constituted tho germ of our prosont Royal Arih . I havo also addocl an intelligiblo description of tho two dogrocs which thoy subscquenfly mtorjrosod between tho Gooinotrick Master and tho Royal Arch , with copious extracts from tho Excellent and Supor-Excollont Rituals ; as woll as from certain portions of Bro . Dunckorloy's version of tho now dogreo , as introdncod by himself into tho Constitutional Grand Lodgo ; all of which havo becomo
obsolete , and are vory littlo known at tho present timo , although tending to illustrate tho connection botwoon Craft Masonry and tho Royal Arch . " Thoso additions , which placo tho entire subjoct before tho reader ' s oye , will ronder tho volume of mostimablo valuo whon all recolloction of tho spurious coromouios shall havo passod away from human memory : and cannot fail to oxcito tho curiosity of overy brother and companion * who entertains any portion of
respect for that beautiful system of morality which is voilod in allegory , and illustrated by symbols . " The adniirablo mannor in which the author hastreatod this very interesting subject , cannot within tho limits ol such a notico bo sufficiently demonstrated , aud tho high interest which attaches to tho various branches of tho history of Freemasonry , and into which ho ontors dooply , can only bo thoroughly appreciated or - understood by a careful study of tho work itsolfand roarrangod
, as tho contents now are , tho facility of reference is greatly increased . Furthermore , tho very moderate prico at which tho book has boon published , and tho oxcollout stylo in which it is got up , should insure for it a placo in tho library of overy intelligent member of tho Craft .
Ave hope to be ablo occasionally to afford spaco to givo in om pages , short extracts from this highly interesting book .
Lodge Meetings, Etc., For The Week Ending- September 7th, 1867.
LODGE MEETINGS , ETC ., FOR THE WEEK ENDING- SEPTEMBER 7 TH , 1867 .
MONDAY , 2 nd . —Sfc . Luke ' s Lodge ( No . 144 ) , Pier Hotel , Cheyne Walk , Chelsea . TUESDAY , 3 rd . —Colonial Board , ab 3 ; Sfc . John ' s Lodgo ( No . 167 ) . Holly Bush Tavern , Hampstead ; Stability Lodge ( No . 217 ) , George Hotel , Aldermantmry ; La
Lodge Meetings, Etc., For The Week Ending- September 7th, 1867.
Tolerance ( No . 538 ) , Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queenstreet ; Temperance Chapter ( No . 169 ) , White Swan , Deptford . WEDNESDAY , 4 th . —Quarterly Communication , at 8 ; Temperance in the East Lodge ( No . 898 ) , Assembly Rooms , Newby-place , Poplar . TIIUHSDAY , 5 th . —Yarborough Lodge ( No . 554 ) , Green
Dragon , Stepney ; Victoria Rifles Lodge ( No . 822 ) ,. Great Queen-street ; Crystal Palace Chapter ( No . 742 ) , Sydenham . FIUDAY , 0 th . —High Cross Chapter ( No . 754 ) , Railway Hotel , Northumberland Park , Tottenham . SATURDAY , 7 th . —Gen . Com . Boys' School , at 4 ; Leigh Lodge ( No . 957 ) , Great Queen-street ; Rose of Denmark Chapter ( No . 975 ) , White Hart , Barnes , Surrey .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
TIIB COURT . —Hor Majosty , accompanied by thoir Royal Highnesses Princo and Princoss Christian , Princess Louiso , Priucoss Beatrico , Princo Loopold , and Princo Christian Victor , loft Windsor Castlo at ton o ' clock on tho 20 th inst . for Floors Castle , in a special train , and arrived at Carlislo on the morning ol tho 21 st inst . at half-past sovon . After remaining for about an hour tho
Royal train procoodod to Kolso station , whoro hor Majosty was rocoivod by thoir Graces tho Duko and Duchoss of Roxburgho , tho Duko of Bucclouch , lord-lioutonant of tho county ; Lord Bowmont , Lord C . Korr , Major-Genoral Hamilton , Commanding tho Forces in Scotland , & c . Tho Q . uoon and Royal party thon procoodod in carriages to Floors Castlo , escorted by a dotachmont
of the 14 th Hussars through tho town of Kelso , tho stroots boing linod by volunteers . Her Majosty drovo out in tho afternoon with tbo Duchess of Roxburgho . Hor Majesty , accompanied by thoir Royal Highnesses Princo and Princoss Christian and ' Princess Louiso , visited Molroso Abbey oil tho , afternoon of tho 22 nd inst ., and afterwards honoured Mr . and Lady Victoria Hopo
Scott with a visit at Abbotsford . Hor Majesty drovo on tho morning of tho 23 rd inst . to Jodburgh , and rocoivod an address in tho markot-placo from tho Provost , on behalf of tho inhabitants of tho ancient burgh . Tho Quoen loft Floors Castlo in tho ovoning at ton minutes boforo elovon o ' clock for tho railway station at Kolso , escorted by a dotachment of tho 14 th Hussars .
At a quarter-past olovou o ' clock hor Majosty and tho Royal family loft Kolso by a special train , and reached Ballator station at eight o ' clock on tho morning of tho 24 th inst ., from whence I her Majosty and tho Royal family and suite went in carriagos to Balmoral Castlo , arriving at a quarter boforo nino . Tho Quoon , accompaniod by Princoss Christian and Princess Louiso , drovo
out in tho afternoon . Tho 20 th inst . was tho anniversary of tho birth of his Royal Highnoss tho Princo Consort . Tho Quoon wont out , accompanied only by tho Royal family . GENERAL Hoars NEWS . —The health of London on the whole is reported by the Registrar-General to be satisfactory , there being G 5 deaths fewer than the estimated average . The
mortality from diarrhma does not however decrease , the deaths in the last six weeks being respectively—diarrhoea : 170 , 196 , 217 , 189 , 200 , and 19 G-cholera : 10 , 15 , 19 , 13 , 15 , and 18 . The annual rates of mortality in thirteen principal places per 1 , 000 of the population , were as follow .- —Edinburgh 19 , London 21 , Hull and Sheffield , 22 , Bristol 23 , Glasgow 21 , Dublin and
Salford 26 , Birmingham 27 , Manchester 29 , Liverpool 30 , Leeds and Ncwcastle-on-Tyne 33 . A prosecution by the Post Office , of a somewhat remarkable kind , was instituted at the Sow-street Police-court , on the 22 nd inst . A man was charged with delivering letters which had not passed through the Post Office . The so-called letters were circulars which had been entrusted for delivery to a circular delivery company .
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it is to bo hopod that somo ono will tako up tho subjoct ; for if the Royal Arch can bo proved to havo boon invented so lately even as 200 years ago , it must bo considered as a modern dogreo . ... If it bo really anciout , tho records of ono or more of its many lodgos or chapters may establish its long existence in England as oasily as in tho case of St- John ' s Masoniy . But , whatever bo tho result , lot tho investigation bo conducted with accuracyand a desire to cloar up tho truth . '
, . " My explanations woro considered of sufficient importanco to merit publication ; and I was earnestly requested to consolidate the subject-matter of tho correspondence , and to submit the result to tho judgmont of tho fraternity at large . Tho verdict has provod favourable , and a socond edition has boon called for in England , aftor tho work had already passed through three editions in tho United States , and has been quoted and requotod in all tho publications on tho subjoct in that quarter of the globo . "
A vory thorough vontilation of this subjoct in tho pagos of tho FREESIASONS' MAGAZINE has takon place , as during several years it occupied a fair sharo of attention amongst tho reading mombors of our Order , and tho studious and capable , of thoso desirous of acquiring famo as contributors to tho gonei-al stock of knowlodgo on Masonic subjocts found free scopo in thoso pages , Tho author proceods to add . •—" In order to rondor tbo prosont edition moro worthy of general
approval , of which its roeoption amongst tho fraternity will bo tho most conclusivo test , I havo not only arranged its contents in a moro regular and scientific form , by which a roforenco to tho several particulars may bo oasily accossiblo , but havo added fivo now aud interesting chapters on tho ritual and ceremonies of tho
Third Degree , as thoy woro usod by tho secoding Masons in 1710 , and which constituted tho germ of our prosont Royal Arih . I havo also addocl an intelligiblo description of tho two dogrocs which thoy subscquenfly mtorjrosod between tho Gooinotrick Master and tho Royal Arch , with copious extracts from tho Excellent and Supor-Excollont Rituals ; as woll as from certain portions of Bro . Dunckorloy's version of tho now dogreo , as introdncod by himself into tho Constitutional Grand Lodgo ; all of which havo becomo
obsolete , and are vory littlo known at tho present timo , although tending to illustrate tho connection botwoon Craft Masonry and tho Royal Arch . " Thoso additions , which placo tho entire subjoct before tho reader ' s oye , will ronder tho volume of mostimablo valuo whon all recolloction of tho spurious coromouios shall havo passod away from human memory : and cannot fail to oxcito tho curiosity of overy brother and companion * who entertains any portion of
respect for that beautiful system of morality which is voilod in allegory , and illustrated by symbols . " The adniirablo mannor in which the author hastreatod this very interesting subject , cannot within tho limits ol such a notico bo sufficiently demonstrated , aud tho high interest which attaches to tho various branches of tho history of Freemasonry , and into which ho ontors dooply , can only bo thoroughly appreciated or - understood by a careful study of tho work itsolfand roarrangod
, as tho contents now are , tho facility of reference is greatly increased . Furthermore , tho very moderate prico at which tho book has boon published , and tho oxcollout stylo in which it is got up , should insure for it a placo in tho library of overy intelligent member of tho Craft .
Ave hope to be ablo occasionally to afford spaco to givo in om pages , short extracts from this highly interesting book .
Lodge Meetings, Etc., For The Week Ending- September 7th, 1867.
LODGE MEETINGS , ETC ., FOR THE WEEK ENDING- SEPTEMBER 7 TH , 1867 .
MONDAY , 2 nd . —Sfc . Luke ' s Lodge ( No . 144 ) , Pier Hotel , Cheyne Walk , Chelsea . TUESDAY , 3 rd . —Colonial Board , ab 3 ; Sfc . John ' s Lodgo ( No . 167 ) . Holly Bush Tavern , Hampstead ; Stability Lodge ( No . 217 ) , George Hotel , Aldermantmry ; La
Lodge Meetings, Etc., For The Week Ending- September 7th, 1867.
Tolerance ( No . 538 ) , Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queenstreet ; Temperance Chapter ( No . 169 ) , White Swan , Deptford . WEDNESDAY , 4 th . —Quarterly Communication , at 8 ; Temperance in the East Lodge ( No . 898 ) , Assembly Rooms , Newby-place , Poplar . TIIUHSDAY , 5 th . —Yarborough Lodge ( No . 554 ) , Green
Dragon , Stepney ; Victoria Rifles Lodge ( No . 822 ) ,. Great Queen-street ; Crystal Palace Chapter ( No . 742 ) , Sydenham . FIUDAY , 0 th . —High Cross Chapter ( No . 754 ) , Railway Hotel , Northumberland Park , Tottenham . SATURDAY , 7 th . —Gen . Com . Boys' School , at 4 ; Leigh Lodge ( No . 957 ) , Great Queen-street ; Rose of Denmark Chapter ( No . 975 ) , White Hart , Barnes , Surrey .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
TIIB COURT . —Hor Majosty , accompanied by thoir Royal Highnesses Princo and Princoss Christian , Princess Louiso , Priucoss Beatrico , Princo Loopold , and Princo Christian Victor , loft Windsor Castlo at ton o ' clock on tho 20 th inst . for Floors Castle , in a special train , and arrived at Carlislo on the morning ol tho 21 st inst . at half-past sovon . After remaining for about an hour tho
Royal train procoodod to Kolso station , whoro hor Majosty was rocoivod by thoir Graces tho Duko and Duchoss of Roxburgho , tho Duko of Bucclouch , lord-lioutonant of tho county ; Lord Bowmont , Lord C . Korr , Major-Genoral Hamilton , Commanding tho Forces in Scotland , & c . Tho Q . uoon and Royal party thon procoodod in carriages to Floors Castlo , escorted by a dotachmont
of the 14 th Hussars through tho town of Kelso , tho stroots boing linod by volunteers . Her Majosty drovo out in tho afternoon with tbo Duchess of Roxburgho . Hor Majesty , accompanied by thoir Royal Highnesses Princo and Princoss Christian and ' Princess Louiso , visited Molroso Abbey oil tho , afternoon of tho 22 nd inst ., and afterwards honoured Mr . and Lady Victoria Hopo
Scott with a visit at Abbotsford . Hor Majesty drovo on tho morning of tho 23 rd inst . to Jodburgh , and rocoivod an address in tho markot-placo from tho Provost , on behalf of tho inhabitants of tho ancient burgh . Tho Quoen loft Floors Castlo in tho ovoning at ton minutes boforo elovon o ' clock for tho railway station at Kolso , escorted by a dotachment of tho 14 th Hussars .
At a quarter-past olovou o ' clock hor Majosty and tho Royal family loft Kolso by a special train , and reached Ballator station at eight o ' clock on tho morning of tho 24 th inst ., from whence I her Majosty and tho Royal family and suite went in carriagos to Balmoral Castlo , arriving at a quarter boforo nino . Tho Quoon , accompaniod by Princoss Christian and Princess Louiso , drovo
out in tho afternoon . Tho 20 th inst . was tho anniversary of tho birth of his Royal Highnoss tho Princo Consort . Tho Quoon wont out , accompanied only by tho Royal family . GENERAL Hoars NEWS . —The health of London on the whole is reported by the Registrar-General to be satisfactory , there being G 5 deaths fewer than the estimated average . The
mortality from diarrhma does not however decrease , the deaths in the last six weeks being respectively—diarrhoea : 170 , 196 , 217 , 189 , 200 , and 19 G-cholera : 10 , 15 , 19 , 13 , 15 , and 18 . The annual rates of mortality in thirteen principal places per 1 , 000 of the population , were as follow .- —Edinburgh 19 , London 21 , Hull and Sheffield , 22 , Bristol 23 , Glasgow 21 , Dublin and
Salford 26 , Birmingham 27 , Manchester 29 , Liverpool 30 , Leeds and Ncwcastle-on-Tyne 33 . A prosecution by the Post Office , of a somewhat remarkable kind , was instituted at the Sow-street Police-court , on the 22 nd inst . A man was charged with delivering letters which had not passed through the Post Office . The so-called letters were circulars which had been entrusted for delivery to a circular delivery company .